I am a product engineer and have helped build software from small startups, to manipulating hundreds of millions of data points. I write API's and make tools that make developers lives easier.
In regards to having to choose between 2 versions of python, no not anymore. 2.7 is end of live and at minimum everyone should be using 3.6+. But you should be on the latest stable, currently 3.8
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Yeah, but legacy scripts are totally a thing. Some outfits don't even know you can have both installed side-by-side so you can do a progressive script migration. So they did no migration. And they mandate all Python2 even now. It's not pretty. Doing my best on my side to further educate my colleagues, but that's just my corner...
I am a product engineer and have helped build software from small startups, to manipulating hundreds of millions of data points. I write API's and make tools that make developers lives easier.
In regards to having to choose between 2 versions of python, no not anymore. 2.7 is end of live and at minimum everyone should be using 3.6+. But you should be on the latest stable, currently 3.8
Yeah, but legacy scripts are totally a thing. Some outfits don't even know you can have both installed side-by-side so you can do a progressive script migration. So they did no migration. And they mandate all Python2 even now. It's not pretty. Doing my best on my side to further educate my colleagues, but that's just my corner...
Yea legacy is a different thing I agree. But we should all be encouraging to get people to upgrade.